Lou checks in with Molly

Author's Note: This chapter was held back when originally published as a last attempt to not spoil the main story line. If you want to experience in the order it was published, jump over to the chapter They go inside and two chapters before coming back here.

As always, thank you again for ALL of your support and interest. I really hope this exposition hasn't been too slow, but it was really something I felt added meaning behind some of these people's decisions. Also, I welcome your feedback and look forward to many more twists and turns with all of you as this episode nears the end and potentially leads to many more in the future.

“Wow...” was the first thing out of Nico’s mouth after Molly’s retelling of her training while they waited for Lou’s status from the club. Both Nico & Xane were a little non-pulsed as she did leave off the more graphic details and left allusions that she felt people who produced sex related products could fill in, so she had followed by a summary of what she found after waking up to find Lou & ‘Vyki’. She had continued on with a retelling of her day with ‘Vyki’ being a bit more detailed on some of ‘Vyki’s escapades that she rushed through with rambling as quickly as she could.

Xane was still trying to catch up and absorb it all and quickly jumped into defensive mode, “the spray would never make someone do that.”

“Well....” Nico interrupted earning a scornful look from Xane, “not unless the wanted to do those things.”

“Ya, I guess, but it's not going to just turn a guy into a lady slut,” Xane followed up, “but no judgement. If that’s what she likes, that’s fine.”

Molly was a little surprised to say that, but her brain wasn’t really wanting to put all the pieces together as she mumbled, “ya, I guess....”

Meanwhile, Katie was doing some math of her own and was about to ask about the elephant in the room of Paul’s latent tendencies, when Molly’s phone chimed.

“It’s Lou,” Molly said surprised to hear from him after so recently recounting and reliving the pictures of him and ‘Vyki’ in the spare bedroom. Reading the text message she was shocked. “Oh my God!! Paul apparently called Lou to get a ride home.” Molly put the phone up to ear as she quickly called him back.

“Why did he call Lou?!?” Katie asked annoyed but didn’t get a reply as Molly gripped her hand and she spoke into the phone, “Oh my God, Lou!!” Molly was excited to maybe have a connection with Paul finally, “did you say you’ve heard from Paul???”

“Ya, in a manor of speaking,” Lou said with the grumble of his car clearly in the background. “I was headed to pick her... him up.” Lou’s confusion was clearly coming through. “What’s going on? She couldn’t say much.”

Molly breathed heavily as she prepared to summarize things again for Lou, “well, it’s a bit of a long story....”

Lou had gotten apparently the whole explanation and he was almost to the restaurant where Vyki had said she needed him. “And all that happened today?” Lou asked surprised. Especially when it sounded like 3 other people there with Molly as they were trying to find Vyki and get her home.

“It’s been a long day,” said and exasperated Molly.

“Molly, I’m sorry if I caused any issues with you two,” Lou said as he pulled off the highway, “I never meant to cause any strife in your marriage.”

“Oh, Lou, hun, don’t worry about that,” Molly replied assuredly. “We’ve always had a fairly open relationship. But I do have to admit, you were a particular surprise I was not expecting.”

“I’m sorry, Molly. I didn’t mean to overstep, she just ... is something else.” Lou said as his mind drifted off to last night. “That’s rude.”

Molly giggled hearing Lou’s dreamy tone, “don’t be sweety.” Molly then tried to explain, “we’ve always seen poly as way to fill in gaps that our spouse can’t fill; we know no one can be everything to everybody, so we admit that and accept others into our lives.”

Lou was taken aback for a minute as he hadn’t been in a relationship with someone who had a stable poly relationship and was surprised how steady she was even after walking in on them. “So.... you’re okay with what we were doing last night?”

Molly felt a small twinge remembering walking in on her husband going down on their friend after being fucked by him. She had a lot of time to think about it earlier today and realized there was a small bigoted side of her that was upset to see her big strong man with another man, but then remembered that it may have just been a repressed part of himself he was afraid to share with her after their earlier encounter. She internalized a lot of that and was being herself up for quite a while. At least, until she realized how late Paul was running this morning... then her mind went to lots of other plans. “I’m not thrilled that she brought you into our home before we had a chance to talk, but as long as you respect our relationship and treat her accordingly, I’m not opposed to her dating you; you’ve always been a reliable friend to the family, so I’m sure she could do worse.”

“So, it is ‘she’ now?” Lou asked, noticing her change of statement.

Molly had been thinking of ‘her’ as ‘Vyki’ when picturing Lou with... ‘her’... so it just seemed natural, but she didn’t know. “I’m not sure,” Molly answered nervously. “I’m not sure where she’s at mentally right now.”

Lou swallowed deeply as he adjusted his pants and asked the big leading question, “so, you’re okay if she wants to keep dating and doing other things with me?”

“As long as that’s what she wants and you two keep it clean & safe,” Molly took an exasperated breath, “I can’t really deny her a healthy relationship to fill in the gap.”

Lou noticed some apprehension in her voice, “really?”

“Just keep the intimate pieces out of my house,” Molly quipped back before reconsidering, “for now.”

Lou could work with this if this really was workable, “fair enough.”

“Just, please get her home safely,” Molly said with honest concern, “I’m worried about her.”

“I will get her home safely, Molly,” Lou assured.

“Thank you, Lou.” Molly to another long breath before admitting, “you’re a good Daddy.”

“I hope I can be,” Lou replied earnestly. “I’ll see you soon.”

“See you soon,” Molly said as she hung up the phone.

Lou shifted his pants again as he sped off the exit ramp with the light of the restaurant clearly in his sites.

Everyone was staring at Molly in near shock having listened into her side of the conversation. Katie broke the silence first though, “you’re really okay with this?”

Molly thought for a moment surprising herself at how comfortable she was with the idea of her husband dating another man. The idea of taking Vyki shopping and to the spa, while taking opportunities to tease and play with her lesbian girl, then meeting up with a well-dressed mountain before heading off to her own date, and later climbing under the covers in matching silky negligee to sleep the night away; something about it seemed oddly... fulfilling to her. “Ya,” Molly replied with a genuine surprise, “I apparently am.” Then she thought about what Molly running off with a group of men into a hotel room and shivered, “within in reason. I still need to actually talk to her about it.”

“So it really is Vyki now? Not Paul?” Katie asked.

Molly giggled, “something tells me at the moment, your handiwork still has her looking more like ‘Vyki’ then ‘Paul’ anyway, but it's really up to her.”

“You’re a bigger woman than me,” Katie said with trepidation.

“Hey!” Molly responded defensively, “just because I’m not a short stake doesn’t mean I’m fat!”

Katie laughed at her friend’s vein jump, “bitch, I wish I was as thin as you.”

Molly replayed in her head what Katie said and then broke out into a fit of embarrassed giggles before she looked over at the screen and saw Nico & Xane still on the call. “Oh, God,” Molly side stifling a laugh, “I forgot ya’ll were still there.”

“Sorry,” they said in unison. Xane continued, “we were just so enamored with your conversation; we didn’t mean to intrude.”

“Ya,” Nico said with a yawn, “we really should be getting shut eye,” which Xane immediately nodded silently and yawned theatrically to.

“Thanks, guys,” Molly replied, “I think you helped me understand what is going on better.”

“Bye, boys,” Katie said as she hung up, “catch you later.” Turning to Molly, she asked, “you seem rather... pleased, you sure you’re okay?”

Molly shook her head with a giggle, “ya, I think so. You should go get rest, too. I’m going to wait until... Vyki gets home.”

“You sure you don’t want me to stay?” Katie replied, “could be interesting.”

Molly just rolled her eyes at her sometimes-nosey friend, “nah, I need some time with her.” Just then her phone rang with Bill’s name popping up on the screen.

“Maybe I should stay for just a bit,” Katie said as her friend picked up the phone.